Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Electrical Safety Regulator may take action under this section if:
(a) a person who is subject to an electrical safety direction under section 198 fails to do all that is reasonably practicable to comply with the notice; or
(b) the Electrical Safety Regulator believes on reasonable grounds that:
(i) the grounds for issuing an electrical safety direction under section 198 for a place exist; and
(ii) the direction cannot be issued because the person with management or control of the place could not be found, despite reasonable effort to do so.
(2) The Electrical Safety Regulator may take any action the Electrical Safety Regulator believes is reasonable to make the place or situation safe from electrical risk.
(3) Before taking remedial action under subsection (1)(a), the Electrical Safety Regulator must give written notice to the person subject to the electrical safety direction of:
(a) the Electrical Safety Regulator's intention to take the action; and
(b) the owner's or person's liability for the costs of that action under section 213 .